Sponsors, Committee, and Credits

Primavera Festival is made possible with the support and sponsorship of:

UCSB Arts and Lectures
College of Creative Studies
Division of Arts and Humanities
CREATE
Dance Division
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
      Visiting Artist Program
     
Media Arts and Technology Program
Music Department

Primavera Festival Organizing Committee, 2006

Leslie Hogan, Chair
College of Creative Studies

Leslie A. Hogan studied composition at the University of Kansas, the University of Michigan, the Sandpoint Festival, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Bloch Composers' Symposium. She worked principally with Leslie Bassett and William Albright. Her music increasingly reflects a longtime fascination with other art forms and with the potential of music to reflect or respond to visual stimuli from the natural world, resulting in works such as Flight (1997), String Quartet #3: Dolphin (1996), Sonata for alto saxophone and piano: 'Thoughts that fit like air' (2000), and Praise (1992), an orchestral work based on some poetry of Robert Hass. Recent works include Sonata for violoncello and piano (2002), written for Virginia Kron, Questions of Travel (2003), a setting of the Elizabeth Bishop poem for mezzo-soprano and large chamber ensemble, and Splinter of Hope (2004) and Matisse (2005) for solo cello.

In 1999, she co-founded Current Sounds, a new music consortium based in Santa Barbara, California, and also serves on the board of the Chamber Music Society of Santa Barbara, an organization which promotes the performance and appreciation of chamber music repertory through sponsoring workshops, concerts, and outreach activities. She has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Charles Ives Fellowship, 2002; Charles Ives Scholarship, 1993), the American Music Center, ASCAP, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra, among others. Dr. Hogan has taught composition in the University of California-Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies since 1995.

Xavier Amatriain
CREATE/Media Arts and Technology

Celesta Billeci
Director, Arts and Lectures

Dan Connolly
College of Creative Studies

Jeremy Haladyna
Music Department/College of Creative Studies

Delila Moseley
Dance Division

Cathy Oliverson
Arts and Lectures

Curtis Roads
Media Arts and Technology

Mark Somerfield
Public Events Manager, Music Department

John Thompson
CREATE/Media Arts and Technology

Credits

Festival Poster - Kim Carmel, Senior Artist, UCSB Arts & Lectures
Publicist – Patricia Hopper, Music Department
Website – Eileen Koven, Media Arts and Technology